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Welcome to McElderry House Lodging Who We Are McElderry House Lodging is a special place that provides lodging to patients and patients’ families who are visiting the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus. We also welcome medical professionals and students who are visiting the Campus. McElderry House Lodging offers seventeen townhouses, all within very easy walking distance of the main entrance of Johns Hopkins Hospital (two short blocks, at maximum). Houses may be rented in their entirety, or as single bedrooms with shared common areas. When a single room is rented, shared or private baths are available. The townhouses are furnished, complete with a fully equipped kitchen and washer & dryer. Local phone service, basic cable television, and central heat & air are provided. All of the townhouses are close enough to Johns Hopkins to take advantage of free, Hospital-provided shuttle service back and forth to the Medical Campus. Please explore our web site and feel free to contact us with any questions.
History In August of 1992, Johns Hopkins Home Care Group’s first “travel” home care nurse arrived in Baltimore, accompanied by her fourteen year-old daughter. The nursing assignment was supposed to be temporary, and they both anticipated going back to their home in Michigan within a year’s time. The teenager became increasingly aware of a strange pain in her upper left arm, and in March 1993 finally brought it to her mother’s attention. She was promptly referred to the Johns Hopkins Orthopedic Department and was subsequently diagnosed with Osteogenic Sarcoma, a type of bone cancer. She underwent two months of intensive chemotherapy, followed by a 12-hour limb-salvage surgical procedure, involving both a bone graft and a shoulder prosthesis. Ten more months of chemotherapy followed the surgery, and there was no recurrence of the cancer. She remains healthy today. The mother founded McElderry House Lodging in 1996, after her daughter’s recovery. Today, both of them still manage the McElderry Houses, providing comfortable, home-like accommodations to out-of-town families coping with challenging medical situations.
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